Land Records - Are you using them?

  Land Records

  Have you used Land Records? Do you know who a Grantor is and a Grantee is?  Have you relatives of the past that have  Land Warrants or Land Patents?  

Bounty-Land Warrants for Military Service, 1775–1855

Grantor vs Grantee: What's the Difference?

  Do you know what a Sheriff's Deed is and what it means? 

What is a sheriff's deed?

A document giving ownership rights in property to a buyer at a sheriff's sale (a sale held by a sheriff to pay a court judgment against the owner of the property). A deed given at a sheriff's sale in fore-closure of a mortgage. The giving of said deed begins a Statutory Redemption period.

  Do you know what Deed is used with a Will and which one applies with out a Will?

  Do you know how a New York Rifleman may have Ohio land?  

  Are you aware of the states that had Homestead Acts?

  Have you researched Bounty Land Warrant's for WAR of 1812?

  Land records carry much information for genealogists if they go looking. Come back and soon there will be more and    questions and many answers given to help you know where to look and what to look for.